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Posted on 10/27/11 at 12:53 am to I Bleed Garnet
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ya and Longstreet theater is haunted with ghosts of Dead Soldiers.
You learn all about it in University 101 ahahah.
The Little Roundhouse, next to Gorgas Library on The Quad, is said to be haunted by Confederate garrisons that were killed during the Union's siege of Tuscaloosa.
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Posted on 10/27/11 at 12:59 am to CapstoneGrad06
I don't know if we got our name through this but:
The University Greys (or Grays) were Company A of the 11th Mississippi Infantry regiment in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Part of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Greys served in many of the most famous and bloody battles of the war.
The rifle company joined the 11th Infantry at its inception on May 4, 1861 after Mississippi seceded from the Union. Their name "University Greys" derived from the gray color of the men's uniforms and from the fact that almost all of the Greys were students at the University of Mississippi. Nearly the entire student body (135 men) enlisted; only four students reported for classes in fall 1861, so that the university closed temporarily.
The most famous engagement of the University Greys was at Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg, when the Confederates made a desperate frontal assault on the Union entrenchments atop Cemetery Ridge. The Greys penetrated further into the Union position than any other unit, but at the terrible cost of sustaining 100% casualties—every soldier was either killed or wounded.
After Gettysburg, the depleted Greys were merged with Company G (the "Lamar Rifles"). The unit continued to fight until the last days of the war.
The University Greys (or Grays) were Company A of the 11th Mississippi Infantry regiment in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Part of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Greys served in many of the most famous and bloody battles of the war.
The rifle company joined the 11th Infantry at its inception on May 4, 1861 after Mississippi seceded from the Union. Their name "University Greys" derived from the gray color of the men's uniforms and from the fact that almost all of the Greys were students at the University of Mississippi. Nearly the entire student body (135 men) enlisted; only four students reported for classes in fall 1861, so that the university closed temporarily.
The most famous engagement of the University Greys was at Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg, when the Confederates made a desperate frontal assault on the Union entrenchments atop Cemetery Ridge. The Greys penetrated further into the Union position than any other unit, but at the terrible cost of sustaining 100% casualties—every soldier was either killed or wounded.
After Gettysburg, the depleted Greys were merged with Company G (the "Lamar Rifles"). The unit continued to fight until the last days of the war.
Posted on 10/27/11 at 1:03 am to RebelNutt48
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The first mention of "Bulldogs" in association with Georgia athletics occurred on November 28, 1901, at the Georgia-Auburn football game played in Atlanta. The Georgia fans "had a badge saying 'Eat `em Georgia' and a picture of a bulldog tearing a piece of cloth";[3] however, it was not until 1920 that the nickname "Bulldog" was used to describe the athletic teams at the University of Georgia. Traditionally, the choice of a Bulldog as the UGA mascot was attributed to the alma mater of its founders and first president, who graduated from Yale University.[4] On November 3, 1920, Morgan Blake, a sportswriter for the Atlanta Journal wrote a story about school nicknames for football teams and proposed:
The Georgia Bulldogs would sound good because there is a certain dignity about a bulldog, as well as ferocity.[5]
Shortly thereafter, another news story appeared in the Atlanta Constitution in which the name "Bulldogs" was used several times to describe the Georgia football team and the nickname has been used ever since then.
Posted on 10/27/11 at 1:54 am to Hog on the Hill
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The only civil war connection that Arkansas really has (AFAIK) is that Old Main's north tower was built slightly higher than its south tower thanks to the yanks who designed the building
The primary reason that the flagship university of the state was placed in NWA instead of anywhere further south was because the people up here opposed the war and the federal government was still apprehensive about naming a land-grant university in enemy territory just 5-6 years after the war, so to speak. Thanks, HORT 101
Posted on 10/27/11 at 2:13 am to redwingtiger
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Why is everybody freaking out over this?
Simpletons who have been socialized this way. Everyone should be proud of something. It's the simpletons who make negative associations with everything that should be easily discounted.
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Posted on 10/27/11 at 2:59 am to AlejandroInHouston
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AlejandroInHouston
How lame, really potok and the splc have been discredited as nothing but a con to make money.
The stuff they wrote about the SCV is false and based on lies and rumor. However even they say the SCV is not a hate group.
Learn more here
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Posted on 10/27/11 at 4:00 am to Hog on the Hill
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The Tigers have been intimately familiar with the undersides of hog balls
Of course the historical record says otherwise.
Posted on 10/27/11 at 5:53 am to redwingtiger
"Another soldier admitted, “I was actually afraid of them, afraid I would meet them somewhere and that they would do me like they did Tom Lane of my company; knock me down and stamp me half to death.”"
Who knew that JJ was only doing a Civil War re-enactment?
Who knew that JJ was only doing a Civil War re-enactment?
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Posted on 10/27/11 at 6:01 am to Patch
would you like a little hood with that sheet.
Posted on 10/27/11 at 6:05 am to RogerTheShrubber
and you think people should be proud of the confederacy? 
Posted on 10/27/11 at 6:44 am to AlejandroInHouston
Come on now. Posting links from SPLC is just as bad. I would find an article from North Korea more factual.
Posted on 10/27/11 at 7:07 am to AlejandroInHouston
The Huffington Post.
There an unbiased piece of journalism
Posted on 10/27/11 at 7:10 am to theGarnetWay
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Either is SC's
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Posted on 10/27/11 at 7:33 am to Damn Good Dawg
It's early and i'm still groggy, but I'm trying to think of all the things on campus associated with the Civil War. I know North Campus was used for confederate drill formatons and I think the Chapel had some significance? But I'm not entirely sure... I know there was a large significance that Athens played in providing and training confederate troops but I haven't really delved too deep into it. project for the upcoming weeks I guess
Posted on 10/27/11 at 7:35 am to AlejandroInHouston
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They displayed great courage as they fought to uphold the rights of southerners to enslave Negroes."
and....as usual...you are completely clueless....which is par for the course from you on the poliboard..moneyboard and now here it appears....i see your liberal revisionist history teachers did a great job on you.
war of northern aggression
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please go away AIH. you are embarrassing yourself. as you always have.
Posted on 10/27/11 at 7:47 am to tylerdurden24
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It's early and i'm still groggy, but I'm trying to think of all the things on campus associated with the Civil War. I know North Campus was used for confederate drill formatons and I think the Chapel had some significance? But I'm not entirely sure... I know there was a large significance that Athens played in providing and training confederate troops but I haven't really delved too deep into it. project for the upcoming weeks I guess
During the Civil War, a former LSU Chancellor lead his troops to Columbia and used the University buildings to house the officers and as a hospital. (University landscape crews are still digging up severed arms and legs from amputations)While in Columbia, the former LSU Chancellor's troops burned everything in the city except the University where they were staying.
Posted on 10/27/11 at 7:53 am to winyahpercy
A couple of year ago I had tried to delve into the involvement of slave labor in building or cultivating the early UGA grounds but never found anything conclusive. There was some evidence to suggest that it was possible, but nothing in some of the early letters that say for certain, just that there was a sizeable grouping of slaves in early Jackson County at the time and I got as far as the original brick and mortar orders and some of the labor costs used to build old college
Posted on 10/27/11 at 7:54 am to Patch
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I was at a sons of the confederacy meeting
I would rather brush my teeth with chicken shite than go to one of those sad events
Posted on 10/27/11 at 7:57 am to winyahpercy
That would be Gen. Wm. T. Sherman
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